Return to Photo Collections View previous item View next item View BAKM Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection: Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection (Code: BAKM) Series: Various (Code: AN003) Item #: BAKM_AN003_0018 Photographer: T. W. Rogers, Carmichaels, Pa. Physical Detail: To Be Added Date: 1860s Caption: Conflicting identifications - see description below for more information. Is this William John Spencer [1805-1889] and his wife, Elizabeth (Hedge) Spencer [1806-1883] or Thomas Crago [1801-1884] and his wife, Cassandra (Hughes) Crago [1800-1891]? This photograph also appears in the Various Series of the Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection, see image BAKM_AN002_0003. Can you help to identify this photo? If so, please email Candice Buchanan.

Description / Citation: This photograph appears twice in the Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection, but is identified differently each time. (1) Image BAKM_AN002_0003 is identified as William John Spencer [1805-1889] and his wife, Elizabeth (Hedge) Spencer [1806-1883]. Original, professional photograph, no photographer listed. Included in a photograph album that may have once belonged to Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] - daughter of William John Spencer & Elizabeth Hedge, daughter-in-law of Thommas Crago & Cassandra Hughes. (2) Image BAKM_AN003_0018 is identified as Thomas Crago [1801-1884] and his wife, Cassandra (Hughes) Crago [1800-1891]. Original, professional photograph from T. W. Rogers, Carmichaels, Pa. The conflict is difficult to resolve without further photograph comparisons. The Various Series photographs represent several families, as well as friends, schools and organizations. Perhaps as many as six generations are displayed from the 1840s to the 1930s, each generation having added to the collection with photographs from their own family and social ties. The photographs were passed from Louis Morton Waddell, Jr. [1900-1963] and his wife, Leah Abigail Crago [1902-1962], to their daughter Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project between 2006 and 2008. The Various Series is a part of the Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection.

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